Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Entering the Kingdom of God

When Jesus talked about the kingdom of God, he was not
prophesying about some easy, danger-free perfection that will someday appear.
He was talking about a state of being, a way living at ease among the joys and
sorrows of our world. It is possible, he said, to be as simple and beautiful as
the birds of the sky or the lilies of the field, who are always within the
eternal Now. This state of being is not something alien or mystical. We don't
need to earn it. It is already ours. Most of us lose it as we grow up and
become self-conscious, but it doesn't hard in order to find it. The rich
especially have a hard time reentering this state of being; they are so
possessed by their possessions, so entrenched in their social power, that it is
almost impossible for them to let go. Not that it is easy for any of us. But if
we need reminding, we can always sit at the feet of our young children. They,
because they haven't yet developed a firm sense of past and future, accept the infinite abundance of
the present with all their hearts, in complete trust. Entering the kingdom of
God means feeling—as if we were floating in the womb of the universe—that we
are being taken care of, always, at every moment.

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